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Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences

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We thank all contributors, the conda-forge team, and Anaconda Inc. for excellent cooperation. Further, we thank Travis CI (https://travis-ci.com) and Circle CI (https://circleci.com) for providing free Linux and macOS computing capacity. Finally, we thank ELIXIR (https://www.elixir-europe.org) for constant support and donation of staff. This work was supported by the Intramural Program of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, US National Institutes of Health (R.D.), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (VENI grant 016.Veni.173.076 to J.K.), the German Research Foundation (SFB 876 to J.K.), and the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute for the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, program number CGSB1 (grant to J.R. and A. Yousif).

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  1. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Björn Grüning

  2. Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Ryan Dale

  3. Division of CBRN Security and Defence, FOI–Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden

    Andreas Sjödin

  4. Department of Chemistry, Computational Life Science Cluster (CLiC), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Andreas Sjödin

  5. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Brad A. Chapman

  6. Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Genomics Core,, NYU Abu Dhabi,, Abu Dhabi,, United Arab Emirates

    Jillian Rowe

  7. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch

  8. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch

  9. Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, A. C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil

    Renan Valieris

  10. Algorithms for Reproducible Bioinformatics, Genome Informatics, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg–Essen, Essen, Germany

    Johannes Köster

  11. Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Johannes Köster

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J.K. and R.D. wrote the manuscript and conducted the data analysis. K. Beauchamp, C. Brueffer, B.A.C., F. Eggenhofer, B.G., E. Pruesse, M. Raden, J.R., D. Ryan, I. Shlyakter, A.S., C.H.T.-T., and R.V. (in alphabetical order) contributed to writing of the manuscript. D.A. Søndergaard supervised student programmers on writing Conda package recipes and maintaining the connection with ELIXIR. All other members of the Bioconda Team contributed or maintained recipes (author order was determined by the number of commits in October 2017).

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Grüning, B., Dale, R., Sjödin, A. et al. Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences. Nat Methods 15, 475–476 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0046-7

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